Obama Throws Israel Under The Bus.

UNITED
NATIONS — Defying extraordinary pressure from President-elect Donald J. Trump and furious lobbying by Israel, the Obama administration on Friday allowed the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution
that condemned Israeli settlement construction.

The
administration’s decision not to veto the measure reflected its growing
frustration over Israeli settlements, and broke a longstanding American
policy of serving as Israel’s sturdiest diplomatic shield at the United
Nations.

This is disgraceful. Trump nearly stopped it by appealing to Sisi but several other nations (Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela ) did an end run around that and introduced the motion themselves allowing the Obama admin to take their cowardly revenge on Israel.

Shame on them, the UN and the traitorous Obama. I really thought he had more class than that. Boy was I wrong.

Trump in the meantime has said:

@realDonaldTrump
As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th.
6:14 AM - 24 Dec 2016

Doodad,I really can't understand why you or anyone would be shocked by this. I had been expecting it. I even predicted it on this very blog a couple months ago. The UN is run by and for the pleasure of antisemites. It has violated its own charter.Kiss the two state solution goodbye. It's over. There is nothing left to negotiate. War is on the way.

Oh, I'm not shocked but I can sometimes be a bit of a Pollyanna and HOPED Obama would have more class than that. The two state solution has been over for a long time IMO. War? Geeze I hope not but for sure this action will energize Israel's enemies and any blood will be on Obama's hands.

I'm sure Hamas is gearing up already and the other terrorist organization, Fatah, probably is as well. The UN vote essentially says that any Israeli living beyond the 1949 armistice lines drawn between Israel and JORDAN is illegally trespassing on "Palestinian" territory, an ahistorical fantasy nation, and even committing a war crime, and it is saying this in contradiction of UNSC 242 which BTW mentions "Palestinians" not at all. Tell me, what is left to negotiate? What can Israel offer in return for peace and security? How will it ever be able to defend such indefensible borders? And how could it ever allow the abrogation of Jewish property rights and access to Jewish holy sites such as the Temple Mount? The UN vote is saying that Israel is something less than a sovereign nation and its citizens are less than deserving of their own rights. They are reinstituting an old illiberal habit, i.e., spitting on the Jews.Obama has been working against Israel's survival by empowering its enemies. And he has being doing so in a deceitful and subversive way, and Jews who say they support Israel who voted to give him a second term were either cowardly, stupid or in complete denial, IMV.

Now, I want everyone to think back to the video locked in the vault at the LA Times.

Lovely, Kossaks are appalled by Israeli "apartheid", but consider ethnic cleansing of 750000 Jews both legal and desirable. No one is surprised by Obama, we knew the scumbag attended "reverend" Wright's conventicle for 20 years, and agreed with every word. He just doesn't have to pretend anymore.

Joseph Biener First of all, settlements are not and cannot be a violation of international law. The UN claiming they are in a non-binding resolution has no effect other than to further whip up hate and give legitimacy to Arab terrorists in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. By giving terrorists the patina of acceptability, it guarantees further attacks on Israeli civilians and continued intransigence on the part of the PA and Hamas. The result will at some point lead to another war.

It's not just Israel's enemies that will be emboldened by this absolute betrayal by Obama. Expect jihadi attacks to be stepped up in some of the very same schmucky countries that voted for this perversion of the law of nations. These 7th century nut jobs will think they have the entire western world on the run, and who can blame them. And the muslim states have scammed a gullible West with no collective historical memory into believing in "Islamophobia."

"No longer needing Jewish votes, Mr. Obama was free, finally, to punish the Jewish state in a way no previous President has done."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-anti-israel-tantrum-1482533330

This just reinforces all the petty vindictiveness we have heard bantered around all these years which were pooh-poohed by Obama supporters. The ramifications for Israel and Israelis and even Jews worldwide are enormous and too horrible to contemplate.

The resolution can never be rescinded because of f***ing China and Russia so what can be done?

"It is now illegal for Jews to pray at the Western Wall, live in certain Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem or attend Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus.

All of these actions require Israelis to enter areas that were captured from Jordan during Israel's defensive war of 1967. According to the Security Council resolution that the U.S. did not veto, any area that was not part of Israel before June of 1967 is now illegally occupied.... This is only one of the absurd results of this benighted resolution, which also encourages boycotts of Israeli products manufactured beyond the so-called Green Line, and pressures the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israeli officials. In addition, the resolution makes illegal Israel's security barrier, which has saved numerous lives."

Yes, of course, Mike. There is Peter Beinart who doesn't even make the smallest effort not to sound like Bugs Bunny. He was on CNN (I saw it courtesy of a link to Breitbart in the comments at Elder's joint), and he was saying that all Palestinians live under military rule, have no right to vote and it's all Israel's fault. A bit hysterical and exaggerated as usual. He also pointed out that there are some Mossad officials that agree with his own assessments, not to let an opportunity to use an appeal to authority go to waste in buttressing his misleading arguments. He also equated Obama's abandonment - which means that Jews in "east" Jerusalem are illegal squatters - with Reagan allowing a resolution to go through against Israel's bombing of the nuclear reactor in Iraq (which everyone was actually quite grateful for).

"President Obama personally directed Friday that the U.S. abstain from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, seeing the escalation of settlement building as an increasing threat to the viability of a two-state solution to the region's problems. "

Oh, and an especially Happy Hanukkah to all the Israelis who that rat has just helped make criminals for living in their own land. Just remember that you have the love and support of many around the world (especially me,)despite how it sometimes seems.

Israel is studying whether to fund the UN anymore. I would suggest all UN be expelled from Israel immediately. I would break all diplomatic relations with the US until the current administration is out. Lastly I would bar Obama and senior White House staff by name from entry to Israel for life. Based on John Kerry's additional hate speech today I would open an arrest warrant in Israel against him.

I would say it's not practical to be outside the tent. Better to be inside but not support or participate. Were Israel to somehow withdrawal the UN would on that instant declare 'palestine' from the river to the sea. The EU would declare a 100% complete boycott heading toward military intervention. Hamas would be given legitimate nation state status.

I'd prefer to see Israel withdraw support from the inside out. Any states who wish to deal with Israel can do so outside the scope of the UN entirely. Where Israel does in fact contribute to and support the UN, in various health, education, science and technology programs, that shuts down immediately. All nations that voted against Israel...pull all economic, academic, scientific, etc dealings with. Importantly, all those institutions that have or license any intellectual property from or with Israel should be canceled or increased in cost by 20x.

I don't think Israel will leave the UN; just withdraw funding from various areas where it can and withdraw participation,co-operation as necessary. I personally feel the UN should be scraped as the ineffective political dinosaur it has become. Replace it with something that works.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish